Cooker.



PATENTED APR. 9, 1907.v

A. MAJOR.

GOOKER APPL'IOATION FILED NOV. 15,1906.

. INVENTOR wiTNl-:ssEs:

ALPHONSE MAJOR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 1907.

Application iiled November 15, 1906. Serial No. 343,544.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHONSE MAJOR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Cookers, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to a cooker by which a downward pressure of steamis eected on the food being prepared 5 and the invention consists in thefeatures of construction set forth in the following specication andclaim and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is asectional elevation of a cooker embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is aplan view, the cover being removed. Fig. 3 shows a spider.

ln the drawings is shown a reservoirvor outer vessel a, having a spoutb. Into this vessel is placed a s ider readily formed of two strips ofmateria secured together acrosswise and each of -l-lshape. Such spider'c has the lower outwardlyrojecting terminal portions or feet made to tthe reservoir. A receptacle (shown at d) is adapted to sit on the sp1er.

A cover is shown at e, having a rim or iiange When the cover is inplace, the

rim reaches down far enough to rest on the feet of the spider. as seenat g.

The spout l) is made to reach up to about an inch from the wire or topbead or edge of the reservoir. The vent g is placed about two inchesfrom the bottom of the rim f. The spout b enables the height of water tobe ascertained from exterior inspection and also enables refilling, ifre uired, without necessitating the removal o the cover.

This construction offers several advantages-for example, as theJfollowing: lt confines the heat or increases temperature and expeditesoperation of cooking. It produces a downward pressure of steam, so as tocook the food from the top as well as the bottom. It prevents the thickpart of the cereals being drawn to the bottom and packed by the heat orforming a solid mass, thus avoiding The rim has a vent-hole,

as the cereals should not be stirred while' cooking, as such stirringmakes the product mushy or sloppy. By having the heat at top the cookingis perfectly even and the cooked cereals are light and of tasty iiavor.In other words, the flavor is preserved or retained. By this devicefresh supply of steam is constantly supplied to the food. The steamgenerated cannot escape until it has raised the cover sufliciently toraise the vent above the water. The consequent pressure acting upon thefood in the receptacle produces satisfactory results, such pressure, asnoticed, acting directly upon the food and with considerably elevated orincreased temperature. The de y ending rim f of the cover, in connectionwit the wall of reservoir a, forms a double wall against the outside airor influence. The steam is generated more rapidly and fuel consequentlysaved, and the operation is expedited. Such cover remains in place untilthere exists a surplus of pressure enough to raisev the cover.

l claim- In a cooker, the combination of an outer and inner vessel, thelatter of decreased size so as to iit freely within the outer vessel, ae

spider at the interior of the outer vessel and having feet supported bythe bottom thereof for holding the inner vessel elevated from the bottomof the outer vessel and a cover made to sit on and close the top ormouth of the outer vessel and having a circular depending flange ofgreater diameter than the inner vessel and of less diameter than theouter vessel and extending tothe bottom of the latter to form awater-space between the said outer vessel and flange, said flange havingan opening forming communication between the interior of the outervessel and the water-space formed by the iange.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in thepresence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ALPHONSE MAJOR. Witnesses:

EDWARD WrEsNER, W. C. HAUFF.

